Humans emit visible light

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You’ve probably heard of people who claim to see auras around humans. Well, they may be on to something. That’s because LiveScience is reporting that scientists have discovered that humans glow in visible light.

To detect the light, scientists in Japan used high-sensitive camera capable of detecting single photons. As it turns out a person’s body glow rises and lowers over the period of a day. This leads scientists to believe that the glow is related to our metabolism and body clocks.

To be clear this is not infrared light, this is actually visible light. The human face emits more light than any other area of the body because of it gets more exposure to sunlight.

I suppose when you tell a pregnant woman they are glowing, it’s actually not that far from the truth.